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Evan Pugh's Penn State : America's Model Agricultural College /
When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania's Farmers' High School--later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University--the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and visionary. Du...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Evan Pugh
- 2 Study in Germany and France, Research in England
- 3 A New School, a New President, a New Movement
- 4 Beginning the Presidency
- 5 The Institution Hits Its Stride
- 6 Pugh's Standing in the American Scientific Community
- 7 Campaigning for the Morrill Land-Grant College Act
- 8 The Disruptions of 1863
- 9 The Battle Royal
- 10 Death and Aftermath
- 11 Epilogue
- Appendix A. Report upon a Plan for the Organization of Colleges for Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts with Especial Reference to the Organization of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index